Charlotte Ueckert-Zedernhänge

Teatime reading

Charlotte Ueckert reads from ZEDERNHÄNGE

In Cedar Slopes, Charlotte Ueckert takes us to Mediterranean landscapes where hanging cedars, stiff cypresses and gnarled olive trunks become figures. Places flash up like memories, images intertwine with literature and a faint greeting to Rainer Maria Rilke in Duino echoes before the journey continues. In the Behausungen cycle, the poet returns northwards, to a present of burden and silence. Identity becomes fragile, language fumbling: "What of what I say / is not me." Ueckert's poems ask about belonging and self-assurance, only to then cast a glance at a utopia with "Denk Mal". The poems are present; they share and encourage us to think further, to travel further.

Charlotte Ueckert reads from her new volume and talks about wandering between landscapes and languages, about memory, dwelling and the future.

Moderator: Alexander Häusser

Admission: 15 euros (including tea and cookies)

Registration is requested

Tickets at lesung@lit-hamburg.de